The celebrated trotting mare Huntress beating Dutchman's 3 mile time: 1872-Sept. 23rd Prospect Fair grounds L.I. purse $1,250 dash three miles, with $1000 added, to the horse beating Dutchmans time 7:32 1/2 $700 to first, $350 to second, $200 to third – Historic Reproduction
![The celebrated trotting mare Huntress beating Dutchman's 3 mile time: 1872-Sept. 23rd Prospect Fair grounds L.I. purse $1,250 dash three miles, with $1000 added, to the horse beating Dutchmans time 7:32 1/2 $700 to first, $350 to second, $200 to third, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1873. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/98902891d0a4-L.webp)
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The celebrated trotting mare Huntress beating Dutchman's 3 mile time: 1872-Sept. 23rd Prospect Fair grounds L.I. purse $1,250 dash three miles, with $1000 added, to the horse beating Dutchmans time 7:32 1/2 $700 to first, $350 to second, $200 to third comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The celebrated trotting mare Huntress beating Dutchman's 3 mile time: 1872-Sept. 23rd Prospect Fair grounds L.I. purse $1,250 dash three miles, with $1000 added, to the horse beating Dutchmans time 7:32 1/2 $700 to first, $350 to second, $200 to third
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Huntress, a celebrated trotting mare, is the subject here, and the lithograph commemorates a Sept. 23, 1872, event at the Prospect Park fairgrounds on Long Island, where a three-mile dash offered a purse of $1,250 with $1,000 added for any horse that beat Dutchman's time of 7:32 1/2. The prizes were $700 for first, $350 for second and $200 for third. Currier & Ives issued the hand-colored print in New York in 1873, and such prints carried news of racing records to buyers who never attended a track. Harness racing drew large crowds in the years after the Civil War, and this sheet shows how the sport's fame spread.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1873. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1010. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174264 |
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